This is Poimo, the electric motorcycle that inflates and you can carry it in a bag. This concept has been created by a group of researchers from the University of Tokyo.
As technology advances, the mobility sector in cities evolves. Increasingly innovative prototypes that try to provide solutions to the needs that a common citizen may have in their day to day. Now, versatility and electrification are two attributes that fit these needs and the poimo electric motorbike it’s an ingenious solution.
Developed by a group of researchers from the University of Tokyo and poimo, a Japanese start-up, is an electric motorcycle that inflates and you can carry it in a bag. The name comes from POrtable and Yoinflatable MObility, according to its acronym in English, and is an electric motorcycle concept that seeks to promote the use of interchangeable parts.
Poimo, the electric motorcycle that inflates and can be carried in a bag
This radical mobility proposal is an evolution of a first concept presented in May of last year, which they have perfected through the use of 3d design to improve the driver’s posture. Now it is fully functional and the most striking thing is that each and every one of its parts can be inflated once the client receives them at home deflated.
The motorcycle is made up of seven modules including wheels, an electric motor and a battery. It is made of plastic, so it can be fully customized. This includes the driver’s posture that, through a computer program, the parts of Poimo can be developed to be ergonomic and perfectly adapted to the user who will drive it.
Furthermore, being fully inflatablethe Poimo electric scooter is completely portable and can be carried in a bag or backpack, which makes it especially versatile and dynamic. Another advantage of the fact that its parts are inflatable is that, in the event of a collision, it would not cause severe damage to pedestrians or other users of the public highway.
With the same manufacturing system, without changing anything, Poimo offers the possibility of build cheap inflatable wheelchairsbut perfectly useful. It remains to be seen if this concept of an electric and inflatable motorcycle goes to a next phase of production and reaches the commercialization stage, or if it simply remains an innovative prototype.
